Paul Lippe is the CEO of Legal OnRamp, a Silicon Valley based initiative founded in cooperation with Cisco Systems to improve legal quality and efficiency through collaboration, automation and process re-engineering. Previously, he was an executive at Synopsys, where at various times he served as Senior Vice President and General Counsel, and CEO of Stanford SKOLAR, a medical digital library and e-learning company sponsored by Stanford Medical School. A frequent speaker on legal and operational issues, Mr. Lippe, a graduate of Yale College and Harvard Law School, has spoken at Harvard Business School, Stanford Business School, Stanford Law School, the Law Firm Leaders™ Forum, the Stanford General Counsels™ Institute, among others, and published in diverse periodicals such as the National (Canadian Bar Association), the ACC Docket, the American Lawyer, the San Jose Mercury News, Electronic News and Electronic Engineering Times.